Characters you'd Like to Play

Indeed.

Changelings in general are really fun to play. Yay deception.

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

So ... should be starting up the Eberron campaign this weekend. The characters thus far:

Hobgoblin artificer (me), with essentially a mini iron golem as my homunculus. Goblin cavalier, with a dire leopard as a mount. Goblin druid, with a dire badger as a pet. Bugbear soulknife, who will undoubtably name her soulknife and treat it as an imaginary friend, given the player.

We potentially have one more player, who I am going to try and convince to play a goblin or hobgoblin sorcerer, just so she can have a familiar, and thus the entire party will have pets.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

I want to play Hakumen at some point.

Not sure how, but I want to. I figure he would be a very offensively oriented Lawful Neutral Paladin who is determined to "reap the sins of this world and cleanse them in the fires of destruction!".

Also, a Skaven character would be neat; either a genetic engineering type or a mad inventor. Has a special inhaler for dealing with his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder and repeats the last syllable of each sentence-tence. Yes, I realise that isn't how the Skaven Verbal Tic works, but it is the only way I'll remember to constantly incorporate it.

"Evii is right though" -Saturn "I didn't know you were a bitch Evii." -Lior Val

Can't remember if I posted to this thread with the idea before, but back in 2E, I really wanted to make a Fighter who claimed to be a Paladin. Through a combination of magical items and blatant lies ("Yeah... I made a big mistake and currently my god isn't supporting my divine powers"), he'd cover for his lack of actual Paladin abilities while still being an effective combatant. It would probably be easier in 3E by multi-classing a level or two of Cleric (using the "general concept" deity method) so that he could do healing.

Basic backstory was that he's a good fighter and a devout man but... was never called. Therefore, he's spent his life striving to be a paladin in all ways other than the being called in hopes that the gods would recognize his efforts.

It's called a "bong" or a "hash pipe". ;)

...but when you think of it, a skaven stoner doesn't sound that bad.

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis

Tell me if I get it right, so it's a skaven junkie whose drugs make him sane?

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

I now have the inexplicable urge to run a 4E Starlock, with attacks reflavored to have names from... i don't know, actual stars.

"Only now, after being besieged by a flock of talking ponies, did he really understand what he'd lost. "

I would really like to see a 4E campaign in a modern setting so I can play a Tiefling as a heavy metal bard.

I just saw Equilibrium and I really want to try out something that approaches a Grammaton Cleric.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mAH_6V5h4c

edited 31st Mar '12 7:53:21 PM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Re: Heavy Metal Tiefling: Tomu of all people is letting me play one of these. As the split personality of a mild-mannered cleric. IN A CAMPAIGN SET IN FEUDAL JAPAN.

Needless to say, I can't wait for this to get started.

Honestly, any Character would do for me, seeing as locally I've always been DM as long as I can remember. If I did have to choose however, I'd either go for the Knight In Shining Armour type of Fighter, going into Dungeons And Dragons, and swinging a good ol' Greatsword, or A tough Mercenary fighter who was an ex-gladiator or something, and he seeks to earn himself a living by doing jobs for people. Another cool option I had was becoming some sort of Highwayman character, showing up to the Big Bad's home, and then kill his guards doing Gun Fu with Flintlocks before running out of bullets and show Improbable Fencing Skills with a Sabre before killing the Big Bad with said Sabre.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."

Badass barbarian halfling. Played one once, but long ago and for a single session anyway. Which brings me to an issue, how common is this idea? I've seen it appear at least twice, fully separately.

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

Daft interaction of hobbies, game rules, and background music: as a result of going from playing Final Fantasy XII to listening to the song "Bad Reputation" on a sibling's copy of the Shrek soundtrack, I kind of want to play - ideally in a Zodiac campaign - a punk-styled black mage.

Jin from Samurai Champloo. Acutally, I am going to make a samurai right now.

An extremely paranoid conspiracy theorist. Since this character was inspired by Eclipse Phase, someone who would - if given the chance - interpret a head cold as an exsurgent attack, radiation sterilise his quarters, hurl himself into hard vacuum and revert to a clean backup.

A throwing-swordsman. Proabaly a crit-fishing fighter, who speclizes in throwing falchions at people. It’s very possible in pathfinder, actually, what with two-handed thrower, and the snap-shot feats that will eventually result in a 15-ft threat range. He'd proably be a gropiga as well, seeing as they genrealy tote about seven flachions...

My other big idea is to play a barbarian who specialises in combat manuvers, either sunder (and thus the magnificent spell-sunder track.), Grapple (with some-spell-sundering to get rid of freedom of movement) or bull rush (dungeon-crashers, everyone!) two more possibly are a totem-warrior who specialises in natural attacks, or another who uses all the elemental rage feats.

Or a wizard who’s an arcane trickster in all but name.

edited 17th May '12 2:10:37 AM by doorhandle

Couple of people.

In D&D, a soldier who was the bodyguard of a royal family and is currently protecting their sole-suriving child (currently a baby) after the rest of the family was deposed and massacred. He was going to be a shockingly good mother substitute.

Then there was a Genius that my GM wouldn't allow in his Vampire game. He got Inspired whilst repairing the espresso machine from the cafe he worked at, and sorta... kept working on it after it was fixed, until it became a self-sustaining wonder. It had spindly clockwork spider-legs, a stealth-cloak and a gyroscopic frame so it could deliver coffee from any angle when you least expected it. He was considering giving it a death-ray to better toast marshmellows.

Gimme yer lunch money, dweeb.

In D&D, a Warforged Mega Man. Have his follower be the same, but with a lower CON score and wielding a shield.

...and that's terrible.

@door: There's a nifty little item in the 3.5 Magic Item Compendium, if your DM will allow you to use it in Pathfinder. A gem, that when attached to a weapon, allows you to call it to your hand as a free action if you are within 30'. The fighter in our game has that, and has killed numerous weaker enemies by hurling his blade. Also almost turned one of the party members into a shishkebab.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw

Hmm... now that I've gotten to play a mill deck in Magic properly, I now want to try a chaotic neutral character that's slowly going insane and specializes in magic that causes other people to go insane.

Still wouldn't fit in most parties though.

The emotions of others can seem like such well guarded mysteries, people 8egin to 8elieve that's how their own emotions should 8e treated.

So there is an RPG set in totally historical*

XVIIth Century Poland. When I learned that my buddies play it, I began to think of properly cool characters to play. Like, say, a Franciscan who once was a missionary in China, where he learned kung-fu.

Oh, and a Black Knight. The African kind of Black. I'm basing this one on a picture in one of the fencing manuals.

edited 21st May '12 4:14:38 AM by lordGacek

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

In D&D 4E, I wanted to make Scorpion by making a formerly-human Revenant hybrid Infernal Warlock/Ensnaring Swordmage, but the hybrid rules made him a bit too weak. I'm thinking now that maybe I should pick one or the other and use multiclass feats.

Okay. I want to play Segata Sanshiro. Except instead of the Sega Saturn, he's telling people to undergo monk training.

...and that's terrible.

I found out a way to play a Witches Three deal effectively. Now to find a DM that will run them. . .

Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-

Man.

I'd really like to play this vague idea of a character that I got after hours of researching how to build my character that starts at level 9 and then goes into Seeker of the Song at the first opportunity...

The question is what comes before that, and my ideal image of this character is this awesome dude who's all like, heck yeah, Spellscale Paladin of Freedom + Monk + Bard glued together by "Ascetic Knight" and "Devoted Performer" in your face!

But... that would be ridiculously ineffective! My brilliant master plan for the Seeker was always to just take the feat as often as I can that gives you more uses of Bardic Music, so that I can shoot rays and stuff all over the place as a Seeker, but this build would leave me with precious few free feat slots, not to mention natural Bard levels. I would also be getting nowhere with the spells of any of the two classes, and I wouldn't get anywhere with the Monk's unarmed strike damage...

But I want the Spellscale because they're cute and fluffy and I want Unarmed Strike and Wisdom bonus because any character who can mess people up in melee combat with his bare fists is automatically 100% cooler than someone who needs a weapon, and bardiness is necessary because this guy needs to go all symphonic metal on some monster ass, is what I'm saying!

... I don't suppose anyone has any brilliant ideas to salvage this mess of an idea? It's pretty half-baked, I know, but I need to sleep now. ._.